Sunday, April 13, 2008

Flash and Media Center are a sweet mix. I wish I used flash 2 years when I was breaking my head over hosted html. The picture above is from my newest application "Movie Browser". This runs on MCE 2005, Vista MCE and Extenders :P. It's still in beta and is a little difficult to set up, but worth it :-) I mean, who needs iTunes huh?

I am no flash expert, I got the design from the open source dudes at weberdesignlabs.com It took a couple days to get flash to play nice with MCE but I think it looks great.

If you are interested in the project post a comment and I'll continue development. It is currently running on my Vista and 2005 box without a hitch so any further development is not for me it's for you. This is an open source project, so if you improve the code let me know.

This is still in BETA, so unless your ready to do some post install maintenance please wait for the final release.

I wrote a script to generate the Recent.xml file based on a collection of MyMovies.xml files. I've got everything working well except the video playback (kinda important :). When I click/hit enter nothing happens. What am I missing?

My problem was that I had a slightly older version of Flash installed which caused the app to do nothing when the movie was clicked. I will post my MyMovies conversion program as soon I get a chance. I will say that the perf is not too good an xbox360 extender :(

Hmm something amazing about the happen.For version 0.1 it works well. All things need to said is already said: myMovies integration and needs to improve scroll performance (but I think thats depended on flash)

Ok, here's my utility to allow integration with the My Movies format. You just point it at the root directory of your movies collection and specify the output file (C:\Windows\ehome\MovieBrowser\Recent.xml for example).

By the way, I don't know if you guys ever heard ox XBMC, but it gets its movie info from IMDB so it would be a nice idea to have your plugin do the same instead of using MyMovies plugin data. But I don't know which way would be easier.

Anyway, XBMC is open source so the code is available to look at Sourceforge.

Hello!!I test your plugin last hour and i think you do a nice work!!!your plugin is very pleasant!So i look your source code but i can't open iTunesAlbumArt.fla with macromedia flash 8.So my question is: which program i could use to edit the code?

The GUI looks great. However I am a bit a computer noob. I managed to change your recent.xml script so it uses my DVD. However I won't play them (I directed it to a DVD File Video_TS.IFO). Does it at all work with DVD-format-files? And if yes, what do I need to do? I appreciate your help! Again, the GUI of this application is absolutely great. I hope you keep working on this and maybe make it noob-proof :-). Many Thanks!

This is "ON POINT", I'm not a full fledge 'Techie' and I am not able to do any post maintenance or set up at the moment so I am looking forward to you finishing this project, I look forward to trying it out.

This is great !! Thanks a lot, its just what I wanted to have for my Entertainment system,Just 1 Question... is there a way for the PC to launch Vista Media Center directly into Movie Browser??I don't use any of the rest of Vista MCE and just want my entertainment system to launch Movie Browser when it launches. Is there any way?

I love the interface of the browser, but I seem to be having a problem... I linked 20 movies, but only 15 appear on the main page. It always says "...out of 15" at the bottom right - even when I change the MoviesPerPage...

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